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Asian nations find ways to Web-enable PWDs
MANILA, Philippines – The United Nations is looking to find new ways for some 400 million disabled people in the Asia Pacific to get access to the Internet and mobile phone technologies.
In the recently concluded Regional Workshop on the Enhancement of Information and Communications Technology Accessibility for People with Disabilities, member countries from across the region came up with several new guidelines to help improve ICT access for disabled people.
Educating Students With Disabilities in Cyberspace: Ashford University Recognizes National Disability Employee Awareness Month
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- National Disability Employee Awareness Month in October recognizes contributions made by Americans with disabilities to the workforce and in society. Online higher education readies this workforce and makes earning a college degree accessible for more students.
GSA: accessibility compliance improves everyone's quality of life
Sitting in a sports bar, watching the Redskins play, it would probably never occur to the suffering fan that he or she is reaping a benefit from an assistive technology: the closed captioning on the television created for people with hearing loss. "You don't care if it's a loud environment," says GSA's Terry Weaver, you're able to follow the game.
IBM gives voice to your web
Researchers at IBM have created a tool to put vocal flow into any web site, making life easier for the blind as well as the exceptionally lazy.
Blind web surfers use software which reads out the contents of web pages at a bewildering speed (to those unused to it), allowing the user to select hyperlinks and navigate sites. Badly-designed sites don't flow properly, which makes it hard to follow. Big sites can afford to optimise their content for the blind, but the new toolkit from IBM allows anyone to create an optimised flow just by dragging arrows to show how the site should be read.
National Federation of the Blind Files Complaint with United States Department of Education
BALTIMORE, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Federation of the Blind (NFB), the nation's oldest and largest organization of blind people and the leading advocate for equal access by the blind to information technology, and Carlos Mora, a blind resident of Baltimore, Maryland, filed an administrative complaint today with the United States Department of Education. The complaint asserts that one of the United States Department of Education's Web sites, U.S.A. Learns, violates Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act because it is inaccessible to blind people who use text-to-speech screen access technology or Braille displays to access information on the Internet. Because of the inaccessibility of the U.S.A. Learns Web site, blind people cannot access or navigate through the content of the English vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation lessons that are offered through the site.
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 to include WCAG 2.0 access features
The new version of Microsoft SharePoint Server, due for release in November, will feature a significant accessibility update.
The update will ensure that websites and Intranet portals created with the product have the opportunity to comply with the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0.
Digital Britain: Barriers And Solutions To Internet Use By Persons With Disabilities
The Consumer Expert Group (CEG) was asked in the Digital Britain Report to report on the specific issues facing disabled people using the Internet.
This report responds to that request. We urge that this report is used to inform the government’s long-term strategy, as well as the immediate work that is being done by both the Consortium for the Promotion of Digital Participation and by the Champion for Digital Inclusion, Martha Lane Fox, in their work to get people online.
Apple listens and talks about accessibility
Apple products have included accessibility functions for many years; the difference in the latest releases is that Apple is making accessibility a significant part of the marketing of the products.
In the recent Snow Leopard release of Mac OS X, accessibility is one of the bullets on the first page of the announcement.
Federal sites rapped over accessibility problems
When the revamped Recovery.gov site went live this month, advocates for people with disabilities noticed problems with accessibility.
For Recovery.gov, the site's administrators fixed the problems quickly. “The Recovery.gov folks fixed, within days, the most serious of the accessibility
issues I identified, which is great,” said Seth Grimes, an information technology consultant.
Bringing gaming to the disabled
Ironically, it was located in one of the least-accessible areas of the Games for Health conference held a few months ago in Boston.
Up a set of stairs and around a corner from the large conference halls and breakout rooms was the AbleGamers Accessibility Arcade.
Here, many in the gaming community got a chance to see _ and to experience _ what gaming is like for those with disabilities. As a game journalist, I can't think how many times I've trashed on a game's controller scheme for being illogical, unintuitive or just plain bad. But as lousy as those controller setups were, they were at least playable.
To a huge number of gamers and would-be gamers, though, even the most sensible and well-laid-out controller scheme is unplayable. For them, accessibility and interface issues make gaming at best an incomplete experience and at worst a total impossibility.
US digital mobile TV standard includes access
A very important first step has been achieved in accessibility of mobile digital TV receivers in the USA. The technical standard for mobile DTV specifies that CEA 708 captions ('DTV CC') can be carried within the mobile DTV signal, or TV received over wireless devices.
Government 2.0 taskforce and MAA launch web accessibility competition
The Government 2.0 Taskforce, in conjunction with Media Access Australia, has launched a website makeover competition to highlight the need to improve the accessibility of government websites.
Competition Seeking Website Developers and Non-Profit Participants
Houston-area residents and non-profit organizations will gain greater Internet accessibility through brand new websites from the Sixth Annual Accessibility Internet Rally for Houston (AIR Houston) scheduled to kick off this month. Web design professionals and non-profits are encouraged to sign up to participate.
Ebook Accessibility Issues Trouble OverDrive and Adobe
Some 30 million Americans potentially rely on software accessibility features to access library materials, according to the Reading Rights Coalition
(RRC). So last spring, when text-to-speech (TTS) stopped working on OverDrive ebooks because of a software change from Adobe, millions of print-disabled patrons found themselves with fewer options for accessing digital library materials.
Accessibility focus of next Scugog chamber meeting
SCUGOG -- Scugog's businesses will get a taste of what's to come over the next two years when the Scugog Chamber of Commerce focuses on new accessibility standards at its next breakfast meeting.
Slated to be held Oct. 29 at the Scugog Community Centre, 1655 Reach St., the session will provide an overview of the first standard to be implemented under Ontario's Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act. The goal of the legislation is to make Ontario completely accessible by 2025.
Copyright Office Publishes Notice of Inquiry and Request for Comments on Facilitating Access to Copyrighted Works for the Blind or

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